The following table gives some of the universities and colleges in the United States and Canada that have granted the Ph.D. in mathematics to women, together with the date of the first such degree granted to a woman at that institution. This information was compiled from materials in the Helen Brewster Owens Papers at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Library.
University/College | First Woman Ph.D. | Date |
Columbia University | Winifred Edgerton | 1886 |
Cornell University | Ida Metcalf | 1893 |
Bryn Mawr College | Ruth Gentry | 1894 |
Yale University | Charlotte Cynthia Barnum | 1895 |
University of Pennsylvania | Roxana Hayward Vivian | 1901 |
University of Wisconsin | Charlotte Pengra | 1901 |
University of Chicago | Mary Emily Sinclair | 1908 |
Ohio State University | Grace M. Bareis | 1909 |
University of Illinois | Elizabeth Ruth Bennett | 1910 |
University of California | Annie Dale Biddle | 1911 |
Johns Hopkins University | Clara L. Bacon | 1911 |
University of Indiana | Cora B. Hennel | 1912 |
University of Michigan | Suzan R. Benedict | 1914 |
Catholic University | Sister Mary Gervase | 1917 |
University of Texas | Goldie Printis Horton | 1917 |
Radcliffe College | Mary Curtis | 1917 |
Syracuse University | Josephine Robinson | 1918 |
University of Minnesota | Sally Elizabeth Carlson | 1924 |
University of Cincinnati | Bess M. Eversull | 1924 |
Fordham University | Sister Mary Teresa Gannon | 1925 |
University of Kansas | Florence L. Black | 1926 |
Stanford University | Marie Johanna Weiss | 1928 |
Brown University | Rose Whelan | 1929 |
University of Iowa | Dorothy McCoy | 1929 |
Rice University | Deborah M. Hickey | 1929 |
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. | Dorothy Walcott Weeks | 1930 |
University of Toronto | Cypra Cecilia Krieger | 1930 |